The title pretty much says it all. I have tried on several installs of WP and for what ever reason, can't get some of the sidebar item to hide for Editor role users.

I am changing the "Required capability" to Administrator for as an example of one of the 'problem' menu items "Links" and "Portfolio" (which is part of the theme framework I'm using) and and saving the changes and they are still there.

Any help would be appreciated as I'm interested in purchasing the Pro version but am reluctant until I know it's likely to actually work.

I have found another plugin that performs many of the functions of the Admin Role Editor plugin (though not to quite the same granular level) plus a few other features that I've found very useful. It's called, AG Custom Admin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ag-custom-admin/). Though not entirely bug free, it generally works very well and the author is REALLY helpful.

Ah, I see. This is technically not a bug, but an accurate reflection of how WordPress handles menu permissions.

WordPress will actually ignore the capability requirements set on a top-level menu if it has any sub-menus. This is because a top-level menu will usually act as a link to the first accessible item in it's sub-menu, so it will also inherit the required capability of that sub-menu. So to hide the top-level menu, you also need to hide all of its sub-menus.

This is something that sometimes trips up users, but I'm not sure how to implement it better.